two actions on a form 1

[peacecodotnet]

I am trying to make a form that will do two things:

-send me an email with the persons name and what they want to buy
-go to the paypal web site so they can send me money

I know how to do both of these things, I just dont know how to do them both through one form. Can I set two different actions or something?

 

[DRJ478]

The "Form" itself has nothing to do with this. It is the script that is in the form action attribute that does the actions.
There virtually is no limitation what you make that script do. You can first send an e-mail and then redirect to the PayPal website using the header() command.

 

[peacecodotnet]

Tell me more about this header() command, I really have no idea what to do with this.

Peace out,
Peace Co.

 

[DRJ478]

header("Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://wherever.com?param1=blah&param2=blah");[/URL]

Sending an HTTP header to redirect the browser to a different site. Any parameters can be sent as GET, if you want to spend more time you could also make the page POST to the destination URL but you need more in-depth HTTP protocol knowledge.
The most primitive use of header() is the above location directive, just to redirect the browser to another URL.

header() commands must be sent before any other output on the page or they will fail.

http://www.php.net/header